Problem unmarshalling parcelables

Question

I've got a few classes that implement Parcelable and some of these classes contain each other as properties. I'm marshalling the classes into a Parcel to pass them between activities. Marshalling them TO the Parcel works fine, but when I try to unmarshall them I get the following error:

... AndroidRuntime  E  Caused by: android.os.BadParcelableException: ClassNotFoundException when unmarshalling: schemas.Arrivals.LocationType AndroidRuntime  E   at android.os.Parcel.readParcelable(Parcel.java:1822) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.LayoverType.<init>(LayoverType.java:121) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.LayoverType.<init>(LayoverType.java:120) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.LayoverType$1.createFromParcel(LayoverType.java:112) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.LayoverType$1.createFromParcel(LayoverType.java:1) AndroidRuntime  E   at android.os.Parcel.readTypedList(Parcel.java:1509) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.BlockPositionType.<init>(BlockPositionType.java:244) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.BlockPositionType.<init>(BlockPositionType.java:242) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.BlockPositionType$1.createFromParcel(BlockPositionType.java:234) AndroidRuntime  E   at schemas.Arrivals.BlockPositionType$1.createFromParcel(BlockPositionType.java:1) ... 

The LayoverType class (where it's failing):

public class LayoverType implements Parcelable {         protected LocationType location;     protected long start;     protected long end;      public LayoverType() {}      public LocationType getLocation() {         return location;     }      public void setLocation(LocationType value) {         this.location = value;     }      public long getStart() {         return start;     }      public void setStart(long value) {         this.start = value;     }      public long getEnd() {         return end;     }      public void setEnd(long value) {         this.end = value;     }       // **********************************************     //  for implementing Parcelable     // **********************************************      @Override     public int describeContents() {         return 0;     }      @Override     public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {         dest.writeParcelable(location, flags);         dest.writeLong(start);         dest.writeLong(end  );     }      public static final Parcelable.Creator<LayoverType> CREATOR = new Parcelable.Creator<LayoverType>() {         public LayoverType createFromParcel(Parcel in) {             return new LayoverType(in);         }          public LayoverType[] newArray(int size) {             return new LayoverType[size];         }     };      private LayoverType(Parcel dest) {         location = (LocationType) dest.readParcelable(null);    // it's failing here         start = dest.readLong();         end   = dest.readLong();     } } 

Here's the LocationType class:

public class LocationType implements Parcelable {     protected int locid;     protected String desc;     protected String dir;     protected double lat;     protected double lng;      public LocationType() {}      public int getLocid() {         return locid;     }      public void setLocid(int value) {         this.locid = value;     }      public String getDesc() {         return desc;     }      public void setDesc(String value) {         this.desc = value;     }      public String getDir() {         return dir;     }      public void setDir(String value) {         this.dir = value;     }      public double getLat() {         return lat;     }      public void setLat(double value) {         this.lat = value;     }      public double getLng() {         return lng;     }      public void setLng(double value) {         this.lng = value;     }      // **********************************************     //  for implementing Parcelable     // **********************************************       @Override     public int describeContents() {         return 0;     }      @Override     public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {         dest.writeInt   (locid);         dest.writeString(desc );         dest.writeString(dir  );         dest.writeDouble(lat  );         dest.writeDouble(lng  );     }      public static final Parcelable.Creator<LocationType> CREATOR = new Parcelable.Creator<LocationType>() {         public LocationType createFromParcel(Parcel in) {             return new LocationType(in);         }          public LocationType[] newArray(int size) {             return new LocationType[size];         }     };      private LocationType(Parcel dest) {         locid = dest.readInt   ();         desc  = dest.readString();         dir   = dest.readString();         lat   = dest.readDouble();         lng   = dest.readDouble();     } } 

Update 2: As far as I can tell it's failing at the following bit of code (from Parcel's source):

Class c = loader == null ? Class.forName(name) : Class.forName(name, true, loader); 

Why is it not able to find the class? It both exists and implements Parcelable.

Answer 1

Because this was not answered in "answer" but in comment I will post an answer: As @Max-Gontar pointed you should use LocationType.class.getClassLoader() to get the correct ClassLoader and get rid of ClassNotFound exception, i.e.:

in.readParceleable(LocationType.class.getClassLoader());